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Yes, quite. It HAS been blown out of the water and most people have completely overreacted to what I firmly believe is merely an innocuous theory simply based on insubstantiated observations (if that...

I am aware that things can easily change too - as you mention Paul, sometimes habitats may alter subtly but the species still remain in quantity. I used to live in Heaton Moor by the railway line and...

Ha ha, yes, I remember reading quite frequently about them being able to do this! I also recall a friend of mine recounting something to me about hearing wolf whistles coming from a rooftop one day,...

Excuse me, but it's not a case of "being shallow" as you so pedantically put it, but a question of genuinely fearing for the health of our small songbird population, which, as you already know, is in...

Where I frequently walk in the Etherow Goyt Valley country park, there are loads of geese there of all varieties and a family of Mute Swans too - the swans have now all become fully grown adults now...

This is a plug for any forumers here who reside in the Greater Manchester, Cheshire or Lancashire area of the north west. Just to inform you all, if you haven't already heard about it, that there has...